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UDP

Explore the fundamentals of UDP in Node.js by working with the dgram module to create server and client sockets. Understand UDP's connectionless protocol and its advantages for real-time data transfer. Learn to send and receive messages using event-driven methods and compare UDP with TCP in practical scenarios.

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UDP

Alongside TCP, UDPUser Datagram Protocol is the other most common communication protocol. It provides a simple and lightweight connectionless communication model. Being connectionless, a very minimal amount of protocol mechanisms come into play when sending packets. While checksums are still used for data integrity, UDP is favored in real-time applications, as it avoids the overhead of setting up a connection, error-checking, and retransmission delays.

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